Latin

Noun

fiscus m ‎(genitive fiscī); second declension

1. basket
2. purse
3. treasury (public revenues)

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• English: fisc
• German: Fiskus
• Italian: fisco
• Portuguese: fisco
• Romanian: fiscă
• Russian: фиск ‎(fisk)
• Spanish: fisco

References

• fiscus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fiscus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• FISCUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fiscus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• fiscus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fiscus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 223
2. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1288